 Posted by Jane Davidson on August 29th, 2012A warm and informative welcome this morning from the indigenous Kaurna people was followed by a brilliant keynote from Dr. Trisha Greenhalgh, Professor of Primary Health Care and Director of Healthcare Innovation and Policy Unit in the Centre for Health Sciences at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry. Trisha talked about “the good, the bad, and the ugly” of evaluating e-health programmes in Britain. She had strong words about “gagging order” clauses in evaluation contracts, as well as government client uses of the “5 D’s” in response to evaluation findings they don’t care for: deny, denigrate, dismiss, distract, distort.
Read the whole post –> AES keynote Prof Trisha Greenhalgh slams govt leaders’ notions of “scientific” evaluation
 Posted by Patricia Rogers on August 16th, 2012The program for this year’s conference of the Australasian Evaluation Society is out – and I’m already having a hard time trying to choose sessions.
Some of the presentations that caught my eye include:
Beyond Financial Accountability: Results Based Accountability and Making a Difference for Clients of Social Services in New Zealand Anne
Read the whole post –> Beyond financial accountability, interactive teaching of evaluation, why does selecting a method have to be so hard – and more
Posted by Patricia Rogers on June 21st, 2012 
This week I was talking with a colleague who is currently reviewing draft evaluation reports. She has been trying to explain to the authors that a useful evaluation report is not just about reporting a few indicators, nor a data dump item by item from a questionnaire, but a coherent set of answers to
Read the whole post –> Learning actionable evaluation tools and methodologies – Jane Davidson in Adelaide!
Posted by Jane Davidson on June 20th, 2012 
Looking for a nuanced and intelligent approach to using program theory for programs that have simple, complicated, and/or complex aspects?
Then be sure to catch Patricia Rogers’ one-day workshop on Purposeful Program Theory at the Australasian Evaluation Society conference in Adelaide, August 28th 2012.
I attended a half-day version of this workshop at
Read the whole post –> Genuine Evaluation at AES: Patricia Rogers on Purposeful Program Theory
 Evaluation in a Changing World
This year’s theme for the Australasian Evaluation Society’s conference invites all those with an interest in evaluation to think about the ways our world is changing and therefore our work is – or could be – changing.
The preliminary program for the conference, to be held in Adelaide
Read the whole post –> AES conference, Adelaide Aug 27-31, early bird registration extended to 25 June
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